{"id":3428,"date":"2014-07-09T08:32:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T13:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personaltrainersindallas.com\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2014-07-09T08:32:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T13:32:22","slug":"july-2014-fitness-success-story-jon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newwavefitness.com\/blog\/july-2014-fitness-success-story-jon\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2014 Fitness Success Story &#8211; Jon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"responsive-vid-wrap\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zrgbLzehA64?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jon:<\/strong> My name is Jon Running; I&#8217;m from Plano, Texas. I didn&#8217;t really work out that much. I&#8217;ve never done a formal fitness program, had never really even been into a gym. I play basketball occasionally in the spring when the weather is nice.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d start to play basketball and be really out of shape and a month later, it would get hot and I would just stop playing and really wouldn&#8217;t do much for the rest of the year. I didn&#8217;t like being tired, trying to play for 5 minutes and being exhausted. I didn&#8217;t feel like I was in great shape.<\/p>\n<p>I just didn&#8217;t have a lot of endurance. I would get tired walking up stairs and I was like, &#8220;This is kind of ridiculous; I shouldn&#8217;t have to do this.&#8221; I really just didn&#8217;t know going in&#8211;I had never done a formal fitness program or anything like that, so I didn&#8217;t know what it would be like or what the exercises would be like.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know what kind of results I would get out of it, but figured, hey, I&#8217;ll give it a try and see what happens.<\/p>\n<p>I felt like I was gaining a lot more muscle mass. My measurements went down. I was losing the fat and gaining a lot of muscle. Endurance seemed a lot better. We did a one-mile test at the beginning and then did one six weeks later. I think I shaved off like 2 minutes from my mile and didn&#8217;t feel like I was going to die, so that was exciting to see that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3447\" src=\"http:\/\/www.personaltrainersindallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/07_July_2014_Client_Jon1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"07_July_2014_Client_Jon\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>Strength&#8211;big improvement. I remember going in to the class, we&#8217;d do front planks and I could do about 20 seconds. Then after going through the class and training with John, yesterday I did three sets of planks for a minute and a half each, back to back. So going from 20 seconds to 3 sets of 1.5 minutes, it&#8217;s a big improvement.<\/p>\n<p>That was a neat thing, seeing the progression of the things I couldn&#8217;t do or were really hard and then it becomes easy to do. That was kind of cool.<\/p>\n<p>It feels good to be able to do that stuff, not get tired, and not just feel exhausted. It&#8217;s neat to see yourself improve.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I have more energy. I don&#8217;t get tired all the time. I get up early and don&#8217;t feel tired. Just overall, I feel a lot healthier.<\/p>\n<p>I work out at lunch and then in the afternoons I don&#8217;t get tired. I seem to have a lot of energy throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> Does that help with work?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jon:<\/strong> Yes, I would say so. I get more done and don&#8217;t feel exhausted. You&#8217;ve just got to dive in there and give it a try. I had never really done any kind of formal classes or training and didn&#8217;t know the exercises, but you&#8217;ve just got to get in there.<\/p>\n<p>John, the trainer, was really good at teaching the exercises and how to do them properly. The biggest thing is just to dive in there and give it a try. You start to learn the stuff, you start to see the progression, and want to do more.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jon: My name is Jon Running; I&#8217;m from Plano, Texas. I didn&#8217;t really work out that much. I&#8217;ve never done a formal fitness program, had never really even been into a gym. I play basketball occasionally in the spring when the weather is nice. 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